Why Time Management Could Also Be Ruining Our Lives

From the world out there to my inner world then. I have been writing a book in the past few months with two colleagues, and starting up new business, flying to speak at conferences and running current business and finding time to help others on top of finding time for myself and my family. To cope with all that, I started doing Zen training which helped by giving me laser like focus and my productivity went up. But my hapinness did not really. It’s not worse, but it is not better either. So I started reading all these productivity books like Deep Work and The Power of Habit and The Organized Mind. I cannot help but feel that “personal productivity is misguiding us, presenting itself as an antidote to busyness when it might be yet another form of busyness”, to quote the article in this link. The article is quite a long read but I do recommend it if you have that nagging feeling that you might become more efficient but you are not happier necessarily, which was the purpose of the whole productivity exercise.

Again, I am not unhappy. But for me, after six months of extreme productivity it is more about finding a purpose, doing fewer things with greater care and attention rather than getting more things done.